Tag: mental health
Content warning: This article contains mentions of bereavement experiences, including loss of a parent. When my mother passed away unexpectedly at the age of 67 this February, I could barely process the thoughts needed to pack ...
Content warning: This article contains mentions of bereavement experiences, including loss of a parent and a child. One morning in mid-February, I was working at home and about to join a committee meeting virtually when I ...
In the first part of this article, I discussed levels of intervention to help shift a system toward health. If we want to change trends such as exhaustion and burnout, we need to address the ...
As I’ve written elsewhere in this newsletter, burnout is a serious problem in higher education—not only for faculty but also for students and staff. Defined by the World Health Organization as a “syndrome resulting from ...
Exhaustion, burnout, anxiety, and depression are commonplace topics in most workplaces in the United States. Higher education is no exception. In the Healthy Minds study from the 2021–22 academic year, 44 percent of the student ...
This article first appeared in The Best of the 2022 Leadership in Higher Education Conference (Magna Publications, 2023). Today’s professionals use the term “burnout” to describe how a person might feel about their personal and professional ...
Over the past three years, I have given upwards of 30 workshops on burnout to different groups of faculty, whether through invitations to a campus (in-person and virtual), conferences, or retreats. I’ve talked to thousands ...
In academic leadership, we periodically find ourselves returning to a basic orienting question: What is my role as a leader? The daily grind easily fills in answers that involve the managerial tasks of keeping an ...
When the New York Times ran a story in 2021 about our skateboarding research, it highlighted skateboarding as a site of safety, community, and agency for youth from racially minoritized backgrounds. A faculty member at ...
“Stop thinking,” the petite Vietnamese nun instructed the small group of retreatants. We sat cross-legged in a circle on the floor in the enormous meditation hall at Magnolia Grove Monastery in Batesville, Mississippi. Our minds ...
